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Get Free AccessBackground and Purpose— Bridging therapy with low-molecular-weight heparin reportedly leads to a worse outcome for acute cardioembolic stroke patients because of a higher incidence of intracerebral bleeding. However, this practice is common in clinical settings. This observational study aimed to compare (1) the clinical profiles of patients receiving and not receiving bridging therapy, (2) overall group outcomes, and (3) outcomes according to the type of anticoagulant prescribed. Methods— We analyzed data of patients from the prospective RAF and RAF-NOACs studies. The primary outcome was defined as the composite of ischemic stroke, transient ischemic attack, systemic embolism, symptomatic cerebral bleeding, and major extracerebral bleeding observed at 90 days after the acute stroke. Results— Of 1810 patients who initiated oral anticoagulant therapy, 371 (20%) underwent bridging therapy with full-dose low-molecular-weight heparin. Older age and the presence of leukoaraiosis were inversely correlated with the use of bridging therapy. Forty-two bridged patients (11.3%) reached the combined outcome versus 72 (5.0%) of the nonbridged patients ( P =0.0001). At multivariable analysis, bridging therapy was associated with the composite end point (odds ratio, 2.3; 95% CI, 1.4–3.7; P <0.0001), as well as ischemic (odds ratio, 2.2; 95% CI, 1.3–3.9; P =0.005) and hemorrhagic (odds ratio, 2.4; 95% CI, 1.2–4.9; P =0.01) end points separately. Conclusions— Our findings suggest that patients receiving low-molecular-weight heparin have a higher risk of early ischemic recurrence and hemorrhagic transformation compared with nonbridged patients.
Riccardo Altavilla, Valeria Caso, Fabio Bandini, Giancarlo Agnelli, Georgios Tsivgoulis, Shadi Yaghi, Karen L. Furie, Prasanna Tadi, Cecilia Becattini, Marialuisa Zedde, Azmil H. Abdul‐Rahim, Kennedy R. Lees, Andrea Alberti, Michele Venti, Monica Acciarresi, Cataldo D’Amore, Maria Giulia Mosconi, Ludovica Anna Cimini, Jessica Fusaro, Paolo Bovi, Monica Carletti, Alberto Rigatelli, Manuel Cappellari, Jukka Putaala, Liisa Tomppo, Turgut Tatlisumak, Simona Marcheselli, Alessandro Pezzini, Loris Poli, Alessandro Padovani, Luca Masotti, Vieri Vannucchi, Sung‐Il Sohn, Gianni Lorenzini, Rossana Tassi, Francesca Guideri, Maurizio Acampa, Giuseppe Martini, George Ntaios, George Athanasakis, Konstantinos Makaritsis, Efstathia Karagkiozi, Κonstantinos Vadikolias, Chrysoula Liantinioti, Maria Chondrogianni, Nicola Mumoli, Domenico Consoli, Franco Galati, Simona Sacco, Antonio Carolei, Cindy Tiseo, Francesco Corea, Walter Ageno, Marta Bellesini, Giorgio Silvestrelli, Alfonso Ciccone, Alessia Lanari, Umberto Scoditti, Licia Denti, Michelangelo Mancuso, Miriam Maccarrone, Leonardo Ulivi, Giovanni Orlandi, Nicola Giannini, Gino Gialdini, Tiziana Tassinari, Maria Luisa De Lodovici, Giorgio Bono, Christina Rueckert, Antonio Baldi, Sebastiano D’Anna, Danilo Toni, Federica Letteri, Martina Giuntini, Enrico Maria Lotti, Yuriy Flomin, Alessio Pieroni, Odysseas Kargiotis, Theodoros Karapanayiotides, Serena Monaco, Mario Maimone Baronello, László Csiba, Lilla Szabó, Alberto Chiti, Elisa Giorli, Massimo Del Sette, Davide Imberti, Dorjan Zabzuni, Б. М. Доронин, Vera Volodina, Patrik Michel, Peter Vanacker, Kristian Barlinn, Lars‐Peder Pallesen, Jessica Barlinn, Dirk Deleu, Gayane Melikyan, Faisal Ibrahim, Naveed Akhtar, Vanessa Gourbali (2019). Anticoagulation After Stroke in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation. , 50(8), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1161/strokeaha.118.022856.
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